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Moblin 2.1 IVI FC Released With New Intel Driver

Phoronix: Moblin 2.1 IVI FC Released With New Intel Driver

While Moblin 2.1 was released in early November, today at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Intel Corp just putout the Moblin 2.1 IVI FC release. Moblin 2.1 IVI FC marks this as being the "feature complete" version in this release series...

done. The xorg.conf is preconfigured with 2 screens 1024x768 and 800x480 and iegd driver, very unlikely that this will be correct on normal netbooks/nettops with gma 500. It does use the old gui not the new one btw.

what IVI is

IVI stands for "In Vehicle Infotainment"; so "stuff for in cars" in english.
The Moblin IVI builds and releases aren't for netbooks, but for in-car computers.

Car manufacturers normally put their own user experience on such devices, so there is no "real" moblin UI for these builds, but just a basic placeholder embedded IVI developers can use to verify their hardware etc...

iegd? So thats where it was hiding! Anyone got this running under Debian or Arch yet?

Here are the juicy bits on iegd from the intel site:

Multiple-display support

Dual independent display ("extended mode") available when supported by the hardware
Twin mode (same display timings to two displays) is supported on hardware with a single video pipe
Dual video pipe systems enabled to drive more than two displays, using twin mode on each video pipe

2D acceleration

Improved performance of applications which take advantage of OS acceleration APIs, including X11 XAA interface, or Microsoft DirectDraw* interface

Relieves decode burden from the processor, and reduces power consumption of the system MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 and VC-1 formats supported in Wind River Linux,* Red Hat Embedded Linux* and Red Flag Linux* via VA-API

No mention of hardware accelerated encoding as was hinted at in a previous phoronix article that I've seen, but I've not tried this out yet.

This will be available when you can actually find Moorestown platforms, which are yet to be sighted... Hopefully they will emerge in a few hours at CES? Or are they drowned under all Tegra2 products? :-(